1. Mung bean
When it comes to ingredients for relieving summer heat, mung beans are the first thing that comes to mind. Chinese medicine says: "Mung beans are sweet in taste and cold in nature, and have the functions of clearing away heat and toxic materials, relieving summer heat, diuresis and acne. According to Compendium of Materia Medica, mung bean: "It can thicken the stomach, act as a pillow, improve eyesight, treat head wind and headache, eliminate vomiting, treat acne and toxin, and benefit swelling".
2. Duck meat
Duck meat is rich in protein. Eating duck meat in summer can not only prevent illness, but also supplement the nutrients needed by the body. In particular, people who are physically weak are extremely poor in appetite in summer, and occasionally there will be dry stools. As long as they eat duck, this symptom will be alleviated, and the phenomenon of poor appetite in summer can also be alleviated. Generally, you can use lotus root or wax gourd to stew duck meat. This dish is not only delicious, but also nourishing the body. It is the best dish in summer.
3. Coix seed
Coix seed is a kind of sweet and slightly cold food. Eating Coix seed in summer can clean up the wet poison in the body. When summer comes, people are prone to gastrointestinal problems. Once the digestive function declines, it will make people's physique decline. At this time, eating more barley can help our body's digestive system to further strengthen, and it can also supplement the water that is missing after sweating a lot. After ingesting coix seed, the blood sugar energy in the body can be adjusted reasonably. Therefore, it is very reasonable to choose coix seed as the daily staple food in summer.
4. Cucumber
Cucumber "smells sweet and cold, which can clear away heat and benefit water", so it is good to eat more cucumbers in hot summer. The water content of cucumber is 96%~98%, which is the highest among vegetables.
5. Tea
Experienced health care doctors often instruct people to supplement potassium by drinking tea. Potassium is an important trace element in human body, which can maintain the normal function of nerve and its muscles and keep the normal movement of myocardium. Potassium is easily excreted with sweat, and tea with suitable temperature should be the first choice in summer.
6.wax gourd
Winter melon has a good effect of clearing away heat and relieving summer heat. Eat more winter melon in summer to quench thirst and relieve summer heat and induce diuresis.
7.bitter gourd
Bitter gourd is flat in nature and bitter in taste, and can clear away heat, relieve summer heat, promote fluid production, clear heart and improve eyesight. Traditional medicine believes that bitter gourd is cold when it is born and warm when it is cooked. Raw food can clear summer heat, purge fire, relieve fever and relieve annoyance; Cooked food nourishes blood, nourishes liver, moistens spleen and tonifies kidney, and can eliminate pathogenic heat, relieve fatigue, clear heart, improve eyesight, invigorate qi and strengthen yang, and also relieve fever, polydipsia, dysentery and miliaria.
8. crucian carp
If the temperature is humid in summer, you can cook some crucian carp soup to nourish your body. The biggest effect of crucian carp soup is to dispel dampness and stimulate appetite. It is most suitable for people with edema to drink crucian carp soup. Especially in summer, if the long-term accumulated moisture in the human body cannot be discharged in time, it will be very harmful to the body, and the high-quality protein and minerals contained in crucian carp will be absorbed by the human body in the shortest time. Whether it is children or pregnant women, or the elderly or people with poor physique, it is suitable for tonic crucian carp soup in summer.
How to keep fit in summer?
1. Skillfully use aromatic plants to relieve summer heat and dampness: such as fresh leaves of Pogostemon, mint leaves, Eupatorium odoratum, etc., for cooking soup or porridge. However, we should be careful not to overdo it, nor should it be used as a method to treat diseases.
2. Take advantage of the summer heat to relieve winter diseases: However, not all chronic diseases can be treated by summer days, and it depends on personal physique. For example, chronic bronchitis, emphysema, bronchial asthma, diarrhea, rheumatism and other diseases with yang deficiency, people with these chronic diseases can make good use of the summer heat to treat diseases, but if some chronic patients with fever are not suitable for this way to treat.
3. Drink plenty of warm water to relieve summer heat: It needs to be reminded that some people drink too much water at one time to quench their thirst, but I don't know that this will increase the burden on the heart, make the blood concentration drop rapidly, and even cause palpitation, shortness of breath and sweating. Therefore, in hot season, if you are thirsty, you should drink a small amount of water first, and then stop drinking for a while.
What should we pay attention to in summer health?
Using aromatic plants skillfully to relieve summer heat and dampness
The summer heat is just before and after the "midsection", which is the highest temperature in a year. At this time, it is often easy to lose heart, especially for the elderly, children and the weak, which are often difficult to resist the heat, resulting in heatstroke and other problems, such as dizziness, palpitation, chest tightness, inattention, sweating and so on.
The best way to solve these symptoms is to arrange work reasonably and pay attention to the combination of work and rest; Avoid exposure to the hot sun; Pay attention to indoor cooling; Ensure adequate sleep; Pay attention to food hygiene. A correct diet can help the human body resist the invasion of summer and dampness. You can eat more foods such as melon, coix seed, poria cocos and yam. The best way is to cook porridge or soup with these ingredients.
If you already feel dizzy, you can also use aromatic plants to relieve dizziness. For example, fresh leaves of Pogostemon rugosa, mint leaves and Eupatorium odoratum are used for cooking soup or porridge. Because the main functions of fresh leaves of Pogostemon fragrans are aromatic turbidity, dispelling summer heat and relieving exterior syndrome; The main functions of mint are dispelling wind and heat, relieving sore throat and penetrating rash, soothing the liver and purging heat, which can have a good effect. Experts also remind that it is feasible to take fresh leaves of Pogostemon Fragrans for health care in summer, but we should pay attention not to overdo it and not to use it as a method to treat diseases. Moreover, Pogostemon fragrans and mint should not be fried for a long time. Take Pogostemon fragrans as an example. If it is cooked for a long time, its fragrance will disappear and its original effect will not be achieved. Therefore, it is best to put it in a few minutes before porridge and soup are cooked.
Relieve winter diseases by eliminating dampness in summer.
The summer heat is the season with the highest temperature and the highest yang throughout the year. In health care, it is often said that "winter disease is cured in summer", so it is the best treatment opportunity for those chronic diseases that occur every winter, especially in summer health care, which should be carefully nursed back to health and focused on prevention and treatment.
"But not all chronic diseases can be treated in summer, and it depends on personal physique." Experts say that the yang is strong in summer, and the treatment is to supplement the yang by moxibustion and other means to achieve the recuperation effect. Under normal circumstances, those diseases that are easy to suffer in winter, that is, diseases with yang deficiency, can be treated in winter and summer. For example, chronic bronchitis, emphysema, bronchial asthma, diarrhea, rheumatism and other diseases with yang deficiency, people with these chronic diseases can make good use of the summer heat to treat diseases, but if some chronic patients with fever are not suitable for this way to treat.
Drink more warm water to relieve summer heat.
In summer, water is also a very important and indispensable thing to keep fit and prolong life in the human body. As the saying goes, "man is made of water", which is not unreasonable. Water accounts for about 70% of human body weight, and drinking boiled water is highly recommended in the traditional health-care method of cooling off summer heat.
Need to be reminded that in order to quench thirst, some people drink too much water at one time, but I don't know that this will increase the burden on the heart, make the blood concentration drop rapidly, and even appear palpitation, shortness of breath, sweating and other phenomena. Therefore, in hot season, if you are thirsty, you should drink a small amount of water first, and then stop drinking for a while.
Medicine and food with porridge tonify qi and clear summer heat.
It's hot in summer, so you can nourish your body with porridge. Li Shizhen believes that "porridge and intestines and stomach are the best food". It is recognized by the medical profession that porridge can tonify yin fluid, promote the growth of stomach fluid, strengthen the spleen and stomach, and tonify deficiency, which is the most suitable for nourishing people. Porridge is boiled at a relatively low temperature for a long time, which can reduce the decomposition and damage to protein and fat and the loss of vitamins, and make some minerals soluble in soup, thus making porridge more nutritious.
In the summer solar term, the typical "summer porridge" can choose mung bean lily porridge, watermelon cuiyi porridge, and glutinous rice adzuki bean porridge. These ingredients have the effects of invigorating qi, clearing summer heat, strengthening spleen and nourishing stomach, and can help the public spend the summer.
Medicinal porridge is suitable for the elderly, children and people with weak spleen and stomach function. Drink porridge in summer, and you can put some herbs such as thumb yam and poria cocos, and the effect of eliminating dampness will be better.
Don't move "liver fire" to cool off summer heat.
In addition, during the summer heat, people are prone to "liver fire", which often leads to inexplicable upset, listlessness, loss of appetite and other problems, also known as "emotional heatstroke". "Emotional heatstroke" is very harmful to summer health and physical and mental health, especially for the elderly and infirm. Because of emotional disorder, it will cause myocardial ischemia, arrhythmia and elevated blood pressure, and even lead to sudden death.
Experts remind that people with cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases must avoid extreme emotions such as anger and anxiety, and should try their best to be calm and cool.
"sauna day" fitness should take a walk
In the summer, the weather is often sultry and humid, and the human body feels hot, but even if it is sweating, it can't relieve fever, and it is easy to get heatstroke. Therefore, we should avoid the "sauna days" first, and try to go out and have less activities in hot weather. Even if we go out, we can't be exposed to the open air for a long time. In order to let out the moisture in the body, we should try to take a walk and other activities with low intensity when the temperature is slightly lower in the morning and evening.
In addition, patients with a history of chronic diseases, especially middle-aged and elderly people, are far more likely to have cardiovascular and cerebrovascular accidents than young people. Therefore, middle-aged and elderly people should avoid sports that consume too much physical strength, such as running and equipment exercise, in the high temperature in midsummer.